Between snow and desert heat : Russian influence on Hebrew literature, 1870-1970 - Lapidus, Rina. (Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, 2003)
1. The Study of Literary Influence: Historical and Contemporary Approaches -- 2. Language as Mirror of the Soul: Y. H. Brenner's Around the Point as a Multilingual System -- 3. The Man Who Hadn't the Strength to Die: Isaiah Bershadsky's Aimless and Turgenev's Rudin and Fathers and Sons -- 4. When a Russian Jew Laughs: The Poetics of Humor and Satire in the Fiction of Gogol and Mendele -- 5. On a Lost World: Y. D. Berkowitz's Chapters of Childhood and Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth -- 6. Poetry as the Refuge of the Pained Soul: Hayyim Lensky and Afanasii Fet -- 7. The Author as Apocalyptic Prophet: Hayyim Hazaz's Shmuel Frankfurter and Tolstoy's War and Peace -- 8. "We Shall Build a New World of Our Own": Hayyim Hazaz's A Rushing River and Russian Language and Literature -- 9. In the Storm of Youth: The Poetry of M. Y. Lermontov and the Young Saul Tchernichowsky -- 10. Ruffian and Poet: The Works of Alexander Penn and Sergei Esenin.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Hebrew literature, Modern -- Russian influences; Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism